blog #8

1.      My first source is from Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. It is an article about the psychological effects of rhymes on a person’s memory. It explains an experiment that was run using 2 articles one starting with a humorous limerick and one without and seeing which one was remembered in more detail. It was the one that started with a limerick.

2.      My second source is from the Anglican Theological Review. This is three example of limericks that all see to coincide in some way each one takes some characteristic from the previous ones. Mainly this this just examples of the limericks form.

3.      The third source is from the Journal of Consciousness Studies. It’s about how the use of rhyming schemes comes naturally to the human brain. It connects how the brain likes the connection between words that rhyme because of the similarities of a certain sound. The brain does this subconsciously without us realizing sometimes.

4.      The fourth source is from the PLoS One volumes. It refers to another experiment that was held comparing the pupillary responses from the participants. Its shows that the most reactive form of limerick endings were the ones that ended in rhyme schemes

5.      The fifth source is from an encyclopedia basically this source is just for explaining exactly what a limerick is.  Which is a short humorous verse. Most of the time it is composed of nonsense that rhymes to get a laugh.